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* [http://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/989-Gene-s-Martin-Rossiter-Interview-Comparisons-With-Morrissey-sabotagetimes-com Gene's Martin Rossiter Interview, Comparisons With Morrissey - sabotagetimes.com] - Morrissey-solo (Nov. 27, 2012) | |||
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'''Throughout your time with Gene, you were routinely compared with Morrissey. How much of a burden did that become?'''<br /> | |||
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I liked The Smiths a lot. From an early age, I’d always felt a sense of “otherness” and, to me, The Smiths were the musical manifestation of that otherness. I enjoyed the fact that Morrissey would use language in a way that was very different from any other singer of the time. Morrissey did cast a long shadow and became a kind of shadow that I could never quite get away from. I did get fed up with the comparisons because his name would keep coming up whenever Gene was written about. The comparisons came up because, like Morrissey, I sing in an English accent which is surprisingly rare when you think about it. Like Morrissey I sing with a vibrato. I suppose we both have an interest in the human condition. But, as far as I’m concerned, that’s where it ends. | |||
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* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/nov/12/popandrock27 20 most fabulous (part two)] - The Observer (Nov. 11, 2006)<ref name="ms20061106"/> | * [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/nov/12/popandrock27 20 most fabulous (part two)] - The Observer (Nov. 11, 2006)<ref name="ms20061106"/> | ||